Professor of History Doug Sackman, writing in "The Conversation.com" on the white supremacist/ fascist idea animating the Malignant Fascist's immigration/ deportation policies:
... On X, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been presenting itself as if it’s on a mission to secure a white homeland. It has posted videos of white people enjoying America’s natural wonders to the tune of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” and paintings that propagandize manifest destiny, the idea that the U.S. is destined to extend its dominion across North America.
Homeland Security recently posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” as a “Heritage to be proud of.” It depicts a luminous white goddess flying west over the American landscape, with white farmers plowing the soil beneath, while petrified Native Americans, shrouded in darkness, are being chased from their homelands.
As I and others have pointed out, Homeland Security is using coded messages to affirm white supremacists’ vision of turning America into a white homeland.
On the ground in America today, nonwhite immigrants are fleeing from immigration agents, as if the Gast painting is coming to life. The United Farm Workers union, referring to “videos of agents chasing farm workers thru the field,” says that “workers are terrorized.” One worker said they are “being hunted like animals.”...
American fascism isn't coming, folks; it's already here. This is the pernicious garbage that the Malignant Fascist's regime and its operational goons at ICE and Border Patrol believe. But every decent, truly patriotic American should feel absolute rage at what this cult/ party and its fascist leadership is doing to what's left of our nation. They should also feel an unshakable determination to stamp out this cancer in our country, every bit of it, once and for all. It's a mission we have to undertake and then finish once started.
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